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Local digest: Cal basketball coach Mike Montgomery scheduled for surgical procedure, will need short recovery period

Associated Press

Posted:
10/18/2011 09:49:33 PM PDT

Updated:
10/18/2011 10:30:22 PM PDT

Cal men's basketball coach Mike Montgomery is scheduled for a surgical procedure Wednesday that will include a short recovery period away from the team.

The school made the announcement Tuesday, providing no further details about Montgomery's condition while asking for privacy on the matter.

The school said assistant coaches Travis DeCuire and Jay John will run the team during Montgomery's absence.

The Saint Mary's College men's basketball team will host an open scrimmage Sunday at 1 p.m. at McKeon Pavilion. It'll be the public's first opportunity to see the 2011-12 Gaels, led by returning All-West Coast Conference guard Matthew Dellavedova and forward Rob Jones.

Former Saint Mary's star Patty Mills is leading Australia's National Basketball League in scoring, averaging 23.5 points in Melbourne's first two games. He's playing in his homeland during the NBA lockout. Also, former Gael Diamon Simpson (Hayward High) had 15 points and six rebounds in his only game for Adelaide.

Brown senior linebacker Daniel Smithwick (San Ramon Valley High) was named Ivy League Defensive Player of the Week. He intercepted Princeton's first pass of the game in the flat and returned it 36 yards for a touchdown just 57 seconds into the game. He also made eight tackles, including six solo stops, in the 34-0 rout.

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Host Cal tied Oregon for the Alister MacKenzie Invitational title, as both men's golf teams finished at 41-under 811 at the par-71 Meadow Club in Fairfax. USF was fourth at 824, while San Jose State was ninth at 849. The Ducks' Eugene Wong (67) was medalist at 18-under 195, five shots ahead of Cal's Max Homa (68). Cal's Michael Kim (66) tied for third at 201. USF's Ji Hwan Park (70) was sixth at 203, a shot ahead of San Jose State's Justin Estrada (67).

The Cal State East Bay men's golf team placed seventh at the Lindsay Olive Wildcat Classic in Corning, finishing at 59-over 923. East Bay's Chriz Herzog tied for 13th at 10-over 226 at the par-72 Sevillano Links. Host Chico State finished at 30-over 894 to win by 20 shots. The Wildcats' Kyle Souza (Livermore High), the 2011 NCAA Division II individual champion, took medalist honors at 4-over 220.

Cal seniors Colin Hawley and Blaine Scully were named to the U.S. sevens team competing at the Pan American Games in Guadalajara, Mexico, later this month. They are joined by San Francisco Golden Gate club players Folau Niua and Milemoti Pulu.

Mixed martial arts

Welterweight champion Georges St. Pierre pulled out of his UFC 137 title fight against Carlos Condit because of knee injury, UFC president Dana White announced. The new main event Oct. 29 in Las Vegas will be a welterweight bout between B.J. Penn and Strikeforce titleholder Nick Diaz, who trains at Gracie Jiu-Jitsu Academy in Pleasant Hill.

Golf

Clayton native Nicolo Galletti earned Rolex Junior All-America honorable mention honors from the American Junior Golf Association. Galletti, 16, is a junior at Foothill High. He posted two top-five finishes and was No. 28 in the Polo Golf Rankings.